Guides
How to turn your class material into practice.
- Make a practice test from your own class notes: Most practice tests online are about the subject in general.
- Turn notes into a quiz: Rereading notes feels productive but is one of the weakest ways to learn.
- Generate a final exam from every unit: Studying one chapter at a time is easy.
- Math practice tests from your own problems: Math is learned by doing problems like the ones your teacher assigns.
- Get your handwritten work graded: Checking the answer in the back of the book tells you whether you were right, not why you were wrong.
- How to study for a test: what works: Research on learning keeps pointing to the same few habits.
- Biology practice tests from your own notes: Biology is full of terms, processes and diagrams.
- Chemistry practice tests from your own notes: Chemistry mixes ideas with calculations.
- History practice tests from your class notes: History exams reward understanding why things happened, not only when.
- Physics practice tests from your own problems: Physics is learned by solving problems.
- Algebra practice tests from your class material: Algebra builds on itself.
- Flashcards vs practice tests: which is better?: Both ask you to pull answers out of memory instead of rereading.
- How to study for finals: a simple plan: Finals cover a whole course.
- How to make a study schedule for exams: A schedule only helps if you can follow it.
- Active recall: the study method that works: Active recall means trying to produce an answer from memory.
- Spaced repetition for students: Review soon after learning, then again a few days later, then a week later.